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Painting (çµµç») is one of the oldest Japanese art, and the most popular one. Main Painting Schools are: Suibokuga, KanÅ, Rimpa, Tosa-ha, Nanga and Shijo. It has been influenced by Chinese art and Zen Buddhism, as well as by Western art.

Japanese interpretations and painters may be studied in the following periods:

Katsushika Hokusai was celebrated as a great print designer, book illustrator, and painter. His works had a deep and lasting effect not only on Japanese art but also on modern Western art. Hokusai was the first Japanese printmaker who endeavored to show the spectrum of human types and experiences in his work, and he was also the first to produce a significant series of pure landscape prints. [1]